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Veterans charity accused of squandering millions
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:31AM August 10, 2012 CommentSAN DIEGO (AP) — Help Hospitalized Veterans is no stranger to controversy.
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Thousands expected to honor Sikh temple victims
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:12AM August 10, 2012 CommentOAK CREEK, Wis. (AP) — Thousands of mourners were expected to gather Friday morning to pay their final respects to the six worshippers gunned down by a white supremacist at their Sikh temple over the weekend.
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NYC man admits dismembering boy in 'panic'
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:03AM August 10, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — The answers to the judge's questions came quietly and haltingly, and absent any emotion that would suggest remorse for a crime that had horrified a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn.
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Gas prices rise; officials wait to enter refinery
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:44PM August 09, 2012 CommentSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A fire at one of the nation's largest oil refineries helped push West Coast gas prices close to $4 a gallon Thursday, as the same federal team that investigated the Gulf Coast spill waited to inspect the unit that was knocked out by the blaze.
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AP NewsBreak: Calif. sues major veterans charity
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:48PM August 09, 2012 CommentSAN DIEGO (AP) — California's attorney general has sued a major veterans charity on allegations that its directors misused millions of dollars in private donations for hefty pensions and other perks, including more than $80,000 in golf memberships for its board members.
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NJ mom sues over breast-feeding video-turned-porn
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:57PM August 09, 2012 CommentFAIR LAWN, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey mother is suing an Iowa production company after an instructional breast-feeding video she appeared in was taken by a third party and used to create pornography.
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Survivor's video shows harrowing Idaho plane crash
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:52PM August 09, 2012 CommentBOISE, Idaho (AP) — The survivors of a plane crash in central Idaho can prove just how close they came to death, with a seven-minute video documenting their harrowing experience, including the bloody aftermath.
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NYC man pleads guilty in boy's dismemberment death
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:42PM August 09, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Looking dazed and speaking barely above a whisper, a Brooklyn hardware store clerk pleaded guilty Thursday to charges he abducted and dismembered an 8-year-old boy who lost his way home.
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Obama reassures family about efforts to free son
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:32PM August 09, 2012 CommentBOISE, Idaho (AP) — President Barack Obama called the parents of an American prisoner of war to assure them that he and the U.S. Department of Defense were doing everything in their power to free Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl three years after his capture in Afghanistan.
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Daredevil: Sand made NJ tightrope walk tricky
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:14PM August 09, 2012 CommentATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Like anyone taking a walk on the beach, Nik Wallenda on Thursday found sand in places he didn't want it.
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Government won't prosecute Goldman Sachs in probe
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:19PM August 09, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Thursday it won't prosecute Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs or its employees in a financial fraud probe.
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Terrorism expert may testify at Fort Hood trial
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:19PM August 09, 2012 CommentFORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — An Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly Fort Hood shooting rampage meets six factors that indicate someone is a homegrown terrorist — including having three videos on his computer, a terrorism consultant said Thursday.
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Canadian fishermen boiling mad over Maine lobsters
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:51PM August 09, 2012 CommentPORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Tensions between lobstermen in Maine and Canada are boiling over in a dispute caused not by too few lobsters, but by too many.
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Peterson to ex-wife: 'Why don't you just die?'
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:50PM August 09, 2012 CommentJOLIET, Ill. (AP) — Drew Peterson's third wife told a friend a year before she was found dead in her bathtub that the former suburban Chicago police officer once broke into her home, grabbed her by the throat, pinned her down and asked a threatening question, the friend testified Thursday.
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NASA rover sends back colorful picture of Mars
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:28PM August 09, 2012 CommentPASADENA, Calif. (AP) — The photo-snapping rover Curiosity returned another postcard from Mars on Thursday — the first 360-degree color panorama of Gale Crater.
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Air Force works to fill need for drone pilots
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:17PM August 09, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Becoming a fighter pilot is still a hotly coveted goal at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.
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Lawyers: Colo. shooting suspect is mentally ill
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:54PM August 09, 2012 CommentCENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Attorneys for the suspect in the Colorado movie theater shootings said Thursday their client is mentally ill and that they need more time to assess the nature of his illness.
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New charges filed in nuclear weapons plant breach
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:39PM August 09, 2012 CommentNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal grand jury toughened the charges against three anti-war protesters who authorities say cut their way through three security fences and spray-painted slogans on the walls of a nuclear weapons plant in Tennessee.
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Komen founder to step down as chief executive
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:09PM August 09, 2012 CommentDALLAS (AP) — As her sister was dying from breast cancer, Nancy G. Brinker made a promise to her: She would do everything she could to end the disease.
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Report warned that Loughner condition was fragile
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:03PM August 09, 2012 CommentPHOENIX (AP) — A psychological report released Thursday warned that while Jared Lee Loughner was competent to plead guilty in the Tucson mass shooting, he remained severely mentally ill and his mental condition could deteriorate under the stress of a trial.
